I have gone through the appropriate channel here at FB to make sure that the correct information is presented.
the article has now been updated to " (*Update*: just for reference, we’re told via email that Facebook, “no longer contributes to nor uses Cassandra.” *Update 2*: we are now being told – and Facebook has confirmed – that Cassandra is actually still employed by the company for, among other things, Inbox Search.) " Thanks Prashant On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Bill de hÓra <b...@dehora.net> wrote: > Nonetheless, thanks for clearing that one up. And that's some serious > volume you've got there :) > > Bill > > On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 12:01 -0700, Prashant Malik wrote: > > This is a ridiculous statement by some newbie I guess , We today have > > a 150 node Cassandra cluster running Inbox search supporting close to > > 500M users > > and over 150TB of data growing rapidly everyday. > > > > I am on pager for this monster :) so its pretty funny to hear this > > statement. > > > > - Prashant > > > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Avinash Lakshman > > <avinash.laksh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > FB Inbox Search still runs on Cassandra and will continue to > > do so. I should know since I maintain it :). > > > > Cheers > > Avinash > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:34 AM, David Strauss > > <da...@fourkitchens.com> wrote: > > On 2010-07-05 15:40, Eric Evans wrote: > > > On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 13:14 +0100, Bill de hÓra > > wrote: > > >> This person's understanding is that Facebook 'no > > longer contributes to > > >> nor uses Cassandra.': > > >> > > >> > > http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/05/17/beyond-cassandra/ > > > > > > Last I heard, Facebook was still using Cassandra for > > what they had > > > always used it for, Inbox Search. Last I heard, > > there were no plans in > > > place to change that. > > > > > > I had the opportunity to talk with some Facebook > > infrastructure > > engineers in San Francisco over the past few weeks. > > They are no longer > > using Cassandra, even for inbox search. > > > > Inbox search was intended to be an initial push for > > using Cassandra more > > broadly, not the primary target of the Cassandra > > design. Unfortunately, > > Facebook's engineers later decided that Cassandra > > wasn't the right > > answer to the right question for Facebook's purposes. > > > > That decision isn't an indictment of Cassandra's > > capability; it's > > confirmation that Cassandra isn't everything to > > everyone. But we already > > knew that. :-) > > > > -- > > David Strauss > > | da...@fourkitchens.com > > | +1 512 577 5827 [mobile] > > Four Kitchens > > | http://fourkitchens.com > > | +1 512 454 6659 [office] > > | +1 512 870 8453 [direct] > > > > > > > > > > >
